Not a typo. Though I did originally see if I could be 'echo' (you know, the whole nickname in keeping with the 'sound' theme... lol). But 'Echo' was already taken.

Then, whilst randomly browsing the web, I came across a really funny picture of a gecko and it hit me -- Gecko. Rhymes with echo. Not only that, I actually keep a leopard gecko too, coolest little critter in the world he is. So, I typed in the nickname 'Gecko' to see if that was available... it wasn't. But that's when 'ecko' really stood out at me... Cool I thought, so I ran with it -- 'Ecko' the friendly gecko.

-- Ecko

Car_Park
Cadet 1

Joined: Oct 24, 2012
Member#: 33726
Posts: 1

Posted:
Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:05 am Post subject:

My username was supposed to be 'Par Cark' as I often say this by mistake when saying 'Car Park' .

But I typed the word correctly when signing up to SST.

The irony!!

zgurl49
Commander

Joined: Aug 08, 2006
Member#: 15310
Posts: 819
Location: Minot, ND

Posted:
Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:29 am Post subject:

Car_Park wrote:

My username was supposed to be 'Par Cark' as I often say this by mistake when saying 'Car Park' .

But I typed the word correctly when signing up to SST.

The irony!!

LOL I literally laughed out loud!_________________Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow. - James Dean

I saw the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" a while ago and quite liked it, but I didn't know until recently that the Name was adopted by many dictionaries to describe some sort of daydreaming person.
Because of certain responsibilities I can't dream all day long but still I can identify with this name.

I read it, and while it's not my thing, I hear it has everything over the movie version. You might check it out._________________I'm writing a novel in verse. 150 stanzas so far, 3 chapters completed, 41% the length of Onegin. Goal: 170 stanzas by December 31.

Bruiser
Lieutenant

Joined: Sep 10, 2003
Member#: 3050
Posts: 124

Posted:
Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:07 pm Post subject:

bruiser is the first thing I thought of when I signed up. I'm a recreational figure skater and I fall down and get bruised up a lot on the ice. Most people in chat call me bru, so I was considering changing it. I kind of wish I had thought it through a little better now.

I'm a girl, btw._________________You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!

I used to have a website called 'aeronautics' (It doesn't exists anymore btw), containing photo's I made from airplanes.

I used my website name on different (aviation-focused) discussion boards, but because of the length of the name, people started to call me 'aero'.

I adopted this name in computer games I played. But the name was often occupied and with the introduction of Windows 7 and the Aero desktop theme (which I loathe), I changed my name in SkyAero.

Bryophyte
Ensign

Joined: Aug 26, 2011
Member#: 31259
Posts: 23

Posted:
Fri Aug 29, 2014 12:37 pm Post subject:

I'm a biologist. When I became a member, I was writing a paper about the boreal forest and was starting the plant section. I thought Bryophyte sounded like a good name.

I'm a girl.

Locutus76
Cadet 2

Joined: Mar 21, 2004
Member#: 5698
Posts: 9
Location: Netherlands

Posted:
Thu Nov 03, 2016 9:44 am Post subject:

Not hard to guess. Best episode of TNG, most awesomenest protagonist AND antagonist : Locutus of Borg. And 76 is the year I arrived at/on Earth._________________"Speak for yourself, Sir. I plan to live forever." Cmdr William T. Riker - ST:Generations

DieTeeFee
Lieutenant

Joined: Aug 04, 2014
Member#: 36042
Posts: 225
Location: near Hamburg

Posted:
Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:33 am Post subject:

I didn't post this here already? No? Okay... here goes.

I actually got my nickname from a coworker. When i was doing an apprenticeship in this small company, everyone there was drinking coffee. But i told them that i'm not gonna do any coffee cooking, so whomever does not wanna go make his own coffee, will just have to drink tea
So everytime i'd actually make a round and offer tea to my coworkers, one of them would say: Here comes the Tea Fairy again
When i left the company, i had converted half of my coworkers to tea.